Are Lakers tickets too expensive?

They should start the Fire Mike D'Antoni Fund. For each ticket, there will be an additional $3.50 tax. Staples can hold about 19,000 people for basketball games. Considering we sell out every game, 19,000 X $2.50 = $66,500.00 per game. Buyout his ass and hire a real coach.

You guys are lucky, here in Toronto, our hockey team has been garbage for the past 9 years, with the exception of this past year.

Our ticket prices from the box office start from 55$ (last row in the building, standing) to 416$ (Rows 1-3, glass seats), and those prices are for regular games. Premium tickets go for 70$ to 450$. Seating capacity is slightly less than 19000, and about 90% of those seats belong to season ticket holders. The problem is scalpers buy the rare amount of tickets or have access to season ticket holder's tickets and sell them for an additional 50% or more.

Like previous posters state, it's all about supply and demand. LA is Laker crazy city, as Toronto is a Maple Leafs crazy city.

The problem in Toronto is 70% of the "fans" at the game are rich business people who attend in suits, miss half the game because they're busy eating their overpriced sushi, and don't get into the game. Even some Raptors games are like that.

At least you guys in LA have a seriously talented squad to watch, and champions in past years as well. I was fortunate enough to see the Lakers at Staples in '08 vs the Wolves, 4th row baseline by the Lakers bench, for 200 for the pair.

No matter how expensive the tickets are, and how awful the team is, if you have a huge market, you will have buyers.

It is expensive,,, But as said, since the demand is there then there is no surprise the prices are at that level comparing to other teams ..

I attended every game i could if i have no school or so .. around 300 dollar for the 100 level,, its a pocket sucker, good thing is that i get tickets from one west bank for free, so it balances out for the games i pay for and the ones i dont ..

I'm planning to fly out to LA for Kobe's return game (or his jersey retirement, whichever happens first), but now I have to reconsider knowing it's $100 to sit in the nose bleeds. [expletive] that's expensive.

Purchasing tickets through middlemen such as brokers is often an expensive affair. Today people are inclined towards purchasing off the internet. It saves them the time and energy of standing in never-ending queues.

Do the games sell out? Yes. That means that there is demand at every price level for all existing tickets. Simple economics would suggest that the tickets are either priced exactly perfect to get to a perfect demand so that each ticket sells to each person who was interested in buying one OR underpriced as there is more demand than supply and people who want tickets at a certain price level are not able to attain them (which is in fact the case for Lakers tickets), and certainly not overpriced as a surplus would exist. College education, paying off again.

I am from Australia and have friends who were in LA earlier in the year and went to see the Lakers vs Heat game. My friends don't even know anything about basketball but paid $450 each just because they could say they went to a Lakers game. The Lakers tickets are so expensive because they are the most popular basketball team in the world.

Will the tickets still be expansive this up coming season though? Ignore the season ticket holders since they already paid for the year. Im talking about seperate tickets or nose bleeds. Will it still cause hundreds of dollars just for nose bleed? What is the selling point for this upcoming season? Come see Robert Sacre tearing it up? Come and welcome Jordan Farmer home? The comback of KB24? I find it really hard to sell to casual fans in buying tickets. Sure the hardcore laker fans will go no matter what but lakers have many casual fans and only go if they are winning and if there are superstars.

MDA is an offensive genius. I hope he sticks to his guns and keeps doing what he does best: Run and Gun. That's the only way to coach.